"The Innocents (play) The Innocents is a play written by William Archibald that premiered on Broadway in 1950 and was revived in 1976. The play is based on ""The Turn of the Screw"" by Henry James. The play is based on the novel ""The Turn of the Screw"" by Henry James. The play takes place in 1880 in the drawing room of an old country house in England. A new governess, Miss Giddens, arrives to look after the orphaned brother (age 12) and sister (age 8), who are ""The Innocents"". The household also employs a cook, Mrs. Grose. The spirits"
"used in the lesson scene have been examined in more detail for their paedophilic innuendos. The line ""The ceremony of innocence is drowned"" sung by Quint and Miss Jessel is taken from the poem ""The Second Coming"" by W. B. Yeats. Notes Cited sources Other sources The Turn of the Screw (opera) The Turn of the Screw is a 20th-century English chamber opera composed by Benjamin Britten with a libretto by Myfanwy Piper, ""wife of the artist John Piper, who had been a friend of the composer since 1935 and had provided designs for several of the operas"". The libretto"
"meant to entertain both the proposition that the governess is mad and the proposition that the ghosts really do exist, and consider the dreadful implications of each. Poet and literary critic Craig Raine, in his essay ""Sex in nineteenth-century literature"", states quite categorically his belief that Victorian readers would have identified the two ghosts as child molesters. ""The Turn of the Screw"" was first published in the magazine ""Collier's Weekly"", serialised in 12 instalments (27 January – 16 April 1898). The title illustration by John La Farge depicts the governess with her arm around Miles. Episode illustrations were by Eric"
"James' ""The Turn of the Screw"" or Stephen King's ""Children of the Corn"") or that of the ""evil doll"" (as in the ""Child's Play"" film series or in ""Annabelle""—which coincidentally is the title of a novel by Jensen, though unrelated to the film). Despite receiving scant recognition, she cultivated some enthusiastic following and her paperbacks have become sought-after collectibles. Published by Warner Paperback Library Published by Manor Books Published by Leisure Books Published by TOR Books Published by Zebra Books Ruby Jean Jensen Ruby Jean Jensen (March 1, 1927 – November 16, 2010) was an American author of pulp horror"
"Pape. In October 1898 the novella appeared with the short story ""Covering End"" in a volume titled ""The Two Magics"", published by Macmillan in New York City and by Heinemann in London. James revised ""The Turn of the Screw"" ten years later for his ""New York Edition"". In ""The Collier's Weekly Version of The Turn of the Screw"" (2010), the tale is presented in its original serial form with a detailed analysis of the changes James made over the years. Among many other revisions, James changed the children's ages. ""The Turn of the Screw"" has been the subject of numerous"
"(1981, as editor). He has written several novels, including ""Mystery Story"" (1980), and the ""Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes"" trilogy which includes ""The Patient's Eyes"" (2002), ""The Night Calls"" (2003), and ""The Dark Water"" (2006). ""The New York Times wrote of the first: ""It is the combination of style and scholarship ... that gives this atmospheric yarn the heightened thrill of intellectual challenge."" ""Publishers Weekly"" described it as ""a brilliant debut mystery...and several passages are truly spine-chilling."" Current work includes a modern remake of Henry James's ""The Turn of the Screw"", a feature version of his earliest TV production ""Rainy"
"on 31 October 2006. For Christmas 2008 an original three-part ghost story by Mark Gatiss, ""Crooked House"", was produced instead, though Gatiss has cited the original adaptations as a key influence. ""The Turn of the Screw"" (1898), a novella by Henry James (no relation to M. R. James), was adapted as a feature-length drama by Sandy Welch and broadcast on BBC One on 30 December 2009. The BFI released the complete set of ""Ghost Story for Christmas"" films plus related works such as both versions of ""Whistle and I'll Come to You"" on Region 2 DVD in 2012, in five"
"The Turning (2019 film) The Turning is an upcoming American supernatural horror film directed by Floria Sigismondi and executive produced by Steven Spielberg that is a modern adaptation of ""The Turn of the Screw"" by Henry James. It will star Mackenzie Davis, Finn Wolfhard, and Brooklynn Prince. A young woman hired to nanny two orphans is convinced that the old country mansion they live in is haunted by a ghost. The film first entered development in March 2016 and was described as a passion project for Steven Spielberg, who wanted to be involved in a scary film again. The film"
"Puccini's opera ""La Bohème"" was staged, as was Chekov's play ""The Seagull"". H. G. Wells published ""The Time Machine"" and ""The Island of Dr. Moreau"". William Morris died 3 October. Mark Twain published ""Tom Sawyer, Detective"". Alfred Jarry, only 23 years old, wrote his highly influential play ""Ubu Roi"", which is often cited as a forerunner to the Theatre of the Absurd. In 1897 Bram Stoker published ""Dracula"". H.G. Wells published ""The Invisible Man"". In 1898 Henry James published ""The Turn of the Screw"". H.G. Wells publishes ""The War of the Worlds"". Oscar Wilde published ""The Ballad of Reading Gaol""."
"The Turn (novel) ""For the film based on the novel, see ""Il turno"""" The Turn ( ) is the name of Luigi Pirandello's second novel. Originally published in Catania in 1902 by the editor Niccolò Giannotta, it was republished by the ""Fratelli Treves"" publishing house, along with the novella ""Lontano"", with the subtitle ""Novellas of Luigi Pirandello"" in 1915. The author seems to have considered it to be a long short story rather than a true novel, and, in the introduction to the 1915 edition, explained that the two stories were written in his early youth and judged them, saying,"
"""The Turn of the Screw"". The children, Flora and Miles, were played respectively by Eva Sayer and Josef Lindsay. However, due to the sexual content of the film, the child actors did not attend the preview screenings. ""The Turn of the Screw"" was first shown at 9 pm on BBC One on 30 December 2009, as part of the BBC's Christmas 2009 season. It has since been broadcast on other BBC channels and on Drama. In the UK, the film was released on DVD on 1 March 2010, and distributed by Acorn Media UK. The DVD was rated ""15"" by"
"and Normal School became the first school in America to teach science to women through laboratory experience, in 1865, Marcet's ""Conversations on Chemistry"" was the text they used. When Henry James wrote ""The Turn of the Screw"" in 1898, Marcet's works were still standard textbooks. The governess refers offhandedly to a text being ""as impersonal as Mrs. Marcet or nine-times-nine."" The world's greatest scientist, revolutionizing both physics and chemistry, Michael Faraday, born in 1791 read the work of Jane. He was impressed by her work on chemistry and by this it helped him to find a new calling for science"
"The Turnstile The Turnstile is a 1912 political novel by the English author A. E. W. Mason. Cynthia Daventry, the heroine of the story, grows up in Argentina as the adopted daughter of Robert and Jane Daventry, an English couple. Unable to have children themselves, they had adopted Cynthia at the age of three from a foundling hospital where she had been left by her dissolute father, James Glanville, following her mother's death in an earthquake. Cynthia is unaware of her parentage, and is horrified when on her 17th birthday her natural father arrives unannounced to claim her, intending to"
"Andy Cooper praised the ""creepy atmosphere"" and tension, but said that the film ""[fell] short in the chills department"" and ""could have done with a few jolts of terror to breathe more life into it"". The divergences from the original novella's plot were generally not well received. Tim Teeman, reviewing ""The Turn of the Screw"" for ""The Times"", felt the 1920s setting did not contribute to the story, as it was not properly developed. He compared the film to Sarah Waters's novel ""The Little Stranger"", a ghost story set in the 1920s in which the social upheavals of the decade"
"""The Turn of the Screw"" has also influenced television. In December 1968, the ABC daytime drama ""Dark Shadows"" featured a storyline based on ""The Turn of the Screw"". In the story, the ghosts of Quentin Collins and Beth Chavez haunted the west wing of Collinwood, possessing the two children living in the mansion. The story led to a year-long story in the year 1897, as Barnabas Collins travelled back in time to prevent Quentin's death and stop the possession. In early episodes of """" ("""", ""Learning Curve"" and ""Persistence of Vision""), Captain Kathryn Janeway is seen on the holodeck acting"
"Mexican miniseries entitled ""Otra vuelta de tuerca"" (""The Turn of the Screw"", 1981); a 1982 adaptation directed by Petr Weigl primarily starring Czech actors lip-synching; a 1990 adaptation directed by Graeme Clifford; ""The Haunting of Helen Walker"" (1995), directed by Tom McLoughlin; a 1999 adaptation directed by Ben Bolt; a low-budget 2003 version written and directed by Nick Millard; the Italian-language ""Il mistero del lago"" (""The Mystery of the Lake"", 2009); and a 2009 BBC film adapted by Sandy Welch, starring Michelle Dockery and Sue Johnston. Literary reworkings of ""The Turn of the Screw"" identified by James scholar Adeline R."
"""The Turn of the Screw"" has also appeared in a number of adaptations, notably the film ""The Innocents"" and Benjamin Britten's opera ""The Turn of the Screw"". The introduction of pulp magazines in the early 1900s created new avenues for ghost stories to be published, and they also began to appear in publications such as ""Good Housekeeping"" and ""The New Yorker"". Oscar Telgmann's opera ""Leo, the Royal Cadet"" (1885) includes ""Judge's Song"" about a ghost at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario. Oscar Wilde's comic short story ""The Canterville Ghost"" (1887) has been adapted for film and"
"The Lady of the Shroud The Lady of the Shroud is a novel by Bram Stoker, published by William Heinemann in 1909. The book is an epistolary novel, narrated in the first person via letters and diary extracts from various characters, but mainly Rupert. The initial sections, leading up to the reading of the uncle's will, told by other characters, suggest that Rupert is the black sheep of the family, and the conditions of having to live in the castle in the Blue Mountains for a year before he can permanently inherit the unexpectedly large million-pound estate suggest the uncle"
"Daphne du Maurier, Henry James, Agatha Christie, and Charles Dickens. As children, Roderick and Caroline changed the hands of a broken clock to twenty minutes to nine, thinking it amusing to reflect the stopped clocks of Miss Havisham's house from Dickens' ""Great Expectations"". Like the narrator of du Maurier's ""Rebecca"", Faraday has no first name; the man overcome by the house in Poe's ""The Fall of the House of Usher"" is also named Roderick. Peter Cannon in ""Publishers Weekly"" writes that the novel is evocative of Henry James' ""The Turn of the Screw"" and Shirley Jackson's ""The Haunting of Hill"
"appeared as part of the ""Hallmark Hall of Fame"". He earned a second Emmy nomination in 1959 for his script adaptation of ""The Turn of the Screw"". He did not win, but Ingrid Bergman won an Emmy for her performance in ""The Turn of the Screw"". He increasingly began writing for the stage as the format of television began to change. His Broadway credits included ""Baby Want a Kiss"", a 1964 comedy which starred Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman. He returned to screenwriting for television in the early 1970s. His 1970s work included ""A War of Children"", written in 1972,"
"The Swish of the Curtain The Swish of the Curtain is a children's novel by Pamela Brown (1924–1989). It was begun in 1938 when the author was 14 but was not published until 1941. The novel has been reprinted many times and has been adapted for television and radio. It was followed by four sequels. It tells the story of seven young people in three different families who form an amateur theatrical group, the Blue Door Theatre Company. The children write, produce, direct and act in their own plays, each of them harnessing a particular talent. Nigel designs scenery, for"
"The Turning Wheel ""The Turning Wheel"" is an 8,400 word science fiction novelette by American writer Philip K. Dick. It was published in ""Science Fiction Stories No. 2"", 1954. The story is set in a post-apocalyptic future where global civilization is governed by a hierarchical, religious society centered on belief in karmic based reincarnation metaphorically viewed as moving forward or backward on a turning wheel. The society presented is class driven, apparently with Caucasians (""Caucs"") at the bottom, and Asians and Native Americans at the top. Above all is the god/messiah, the Bard ""Elron Hu"" (that is to say, ""Elron"
"Round the Bend (novel) Round the Bend is a 1951 novel by Nevil Shute. It tells the story of Constantine ""Connie"" Shaklin, an aircraft engineer who founds a new religion transcending existing religions based on the merit of good work. It deals with racism, including the White Australia policy, and also with the importance of private enterprise. It was one of the first novels Shute wrote after emigrating from Britain to Australia in 1950. The novel, written in the first person, adopts the voice and eyes of Tom Cutter, an aircraft pilot, engineer, and entrepreneur. The novel starts with Cutter's"
"generally praised, but the plot's divergences from the original story were less well received. A particular disagreement concerned the film's horrific elements; some critics considered it to be genuinely scary, while others suggested that the horror was not fully effective. The original story has been much analysed owing to its ambiguity, and critics disagreed about the extent to which the film succeeded in portraying this trait. Academic analyses found the film considerably less ambiguous than the novella. ""The Turn of the Screw"" was released on DVD on 1 March 2010 in the UK and on 28 April 2015 in North"
"The Trick of It The Trick of It is a 1989 novel by Michael Frayn. It is written in the form of a series of letters to a colleague in Melbourne and tells the story of an academic working in English Literature who specialises in a fascination with a famous but unnamed contemporary feminist woman writer. She comes to visit his college and they sleep together that night. The morning she leaves and he pursues her hoping to resume the relationship. In time she writes about him or rather about his mother. The novel explores the theme of admiration of"
"over Kabul"" (September 2010). It tells the story of a young woman growing up in Kabul. In January 2011 her play ""The Painter"" on the life of J.M.W. Turner premiered at the Arcola Theatre to mark its move into new premises. Lenkiewicz's adaptation of Henry James' novella ""The Turn of the Screw"" was performed at London's Almeida Theatre (18 January – 16 March 2013). It was directed by Lindsay Posner Lenkiewicz's shorter works include a contribution to ""24 Hour Plays"" (June 2005), ""Flowers in her Hair"" (March 2009), the radio play, ""The Man in the Suit"" (April 2010), ""The Typist"""
"too confident that style can substitute for substance."" Although the film deals primarily with the spiritual interaction of ghosts with each other rather than with living humans, William Skidelsky of ""The Observer"" has suggested that it was inspired by the 1898 novella ""The Turn of the Screw"" written by Henry James. The Others (2001 film) The Others () is a 2001 horror film. It was written, directed, and scored by Alejandro Amenábar. It stars Nicole Kidman and Fionnula Flanagan. The film is partly based on ""The Turn of the Screw"" by Henry James. The film won eight Goya Awards, including"
"The Squares of the City The Squares of the City is a science fiction novel written by John Brunner and first published in 1965 (). It was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1966. It is a sociological story of urban class warfare and political intrigue, taking place in the fictional South American capital city of Vados. It explores the idea of subliminal messages as political tools, and it is notable for having the structure of a famous 1892 chess game between Wilhelm Steinitz and Mikhail Chigorin. The structure is not coincidental, and plays an important part"
"The Outlaw of Torn The Outlaw of Torn is a historical novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, originally published as a five-part serial in ""New Story Magazine"" from January to May 1914, and first published in book form by A. C. McClurg in 1927. It was Burroughs' second novel, his first being the science fiction work ""A Princess of Mars"". His third was ""Tarzan of the Apes"". ""The Outlaw of Torn"" is one of only two historical novels Burroughs wrote. The other, ""I Am a Barbarian"", set in the Rome of Caligula, was not published until 1967, seventeen years after his"
"late '80s and throughout the '90s James made several trips through Europe. He spent a long stay in Italy in 1887. In that year the short novel ""The Aspern Papers"" and ""The Reverberator"" were published. In 1897–1898 he moved to Rye, Sussex, and wrote ""The Turn of the Screw"". 1899–1900 saw the publication of ""The Awkward Age"" and ""The Sacred Fount"". During 1902–1904 he wrote ""The Ambassadors"", ""The Wings of the Dove"", and ""The Golden Bowl"". In 1904 he revisited America and lectured on Balzac. In 1906–1910 he published ""The American Scene"" and edited the ""New York Edition"", a 24-volume"
"James' ""The Turn of the Screw"" would constitute on-topic, first-level discussion. As it happens, published commentary about the governess has reached enormous proportions. So significant meta-discussion about such first-order criticism has arisen. Literary critic Edmund Wilson, for instance, offered various theories about the governess and other aspects of ""The Turn of the Screw"" over the years, as other critics influenced him to recant or modify his views. As a result, substantial discussion of Wilson's commentary on the book has occurred. This constitutes a classic example of meta-discussion based on Wilson's original, first-order examination of James' book. Other examples of meta-discussion"
"with Anne Stuart and Lani Diane Rich. In 2010, after 20 crowd pleasers and award winners including five collaborations, Crusie published her first solo in six years, ""Maybe This Time"". ""Maybe This Time"" is Crusie's version of Henry James' ""The Turn of the Screw"", a classic she loves and has taught many times. In Crusie's version the governess is not young and inexperienced, the children are not perfectly behaved, they are not isolated because house guests keep turning up and moving in, and the faraway guardian turns up and becomes part of the story. She also continues her interest in"
"family and the country. The Lady of the Shroud The Lady of the Shroud is a novel by Bram Stoker, published by William Heinemann in 1909. The book is an epistolary novel, narrated in the first person via letters and diary extracts from various characters, but mainly Rupert. The initial sections, leading up to the reading of the uncle's will, told by other characters, suggest that Rupert is the black sheep of the family, and the conditions of having to live in the castle in the Blue Mountains for a year before he can permanently inherit the unexpectedly large million-pound"